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The other day I was scrolling along through my Google Reader and came across this from Charles Krauthammer in the Fox All Stars panel. And was mildly annoyed. So I wasn’t surprised to see Mark Steyn come along and:

Wilders does not need to be lectured condescendingly about distinctions within Islam, because he lives [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

I like this:

As for those editors who insist on replacing “Dickensian” with “in the style of Charles Dickens, English novelist, 1812-1870″, that’s a big part of why American newspapers are unreadable. It’s like going down a suburban avenue with speed-bumps every 20 yards. The whole trick of writing is to let the reader [...]

Categories: Business & Media

A golden (get it?!) oldie from Mark Steyn, from New Criterion, September, 2007:

The same networks which offer drearily parochial coverage of the Olympics to the point where you’d barely know there were any other countries competing except as exotic background extras in a Team USA victory parade insist after the commercial break that [...]

Categories: Sports and Leisure

I was about to make a crack yesterday that, apparently, nobody in the MSM has ever been near drugs or alcohol, because nobody got what Tiger Woods was doing yesterday. It was obvious when he announced the press conference he’s in a 12 step program (and he even referenced it in his speech), because the [...]

Categories: Sports and Leisure

The Australian – Menace in mad march of the thought police, by Janet Albrechtsen

THE dark spectre of illiberalism is slowly poisoning Western liberal democracies. You won’t hear about it from much of the left-liberal press. It is part of the problem and its silence only confirms that basic liberties integral to Western liberal [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

WaPo – Jay Leno to keynote White House Correspondents Dinner

At least Obama didn’t fly to Burbank to campaign for him on The Jay Leno Show.

Categories: Entertainment

Okay, let’s work through some of these Haiti links. First, returning to the unexpected revelation that Sanjay Gupta is actually kind of a cool guy:

CNN – Security concerns cause doctors to leave hospital, quake victims (video at the link)

Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — Earthquake victims, writhing in pain and grasping at life, watched doctors [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

I have decided to take advantage of this long weekend and make myself a portfolio. For those of you wondering what on earth I’m doing. Also: a friend was in town and we had brunch. SO MUCH BRUNCH. So that’s where I’ve been.

I have a ton of links on Haiti and other important things [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

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Wheat & Weeds – A Party of Socrates

They turned to fascism because they were tired of partisanship, corruption and politics as usual

Oh joy. Then comes She Who Must Not Be Linked.

I think this might be the first post I’ve tagged “elections” meaning not elections generally but specifically those next year. screams and [...]

Categories: Politics

I read this late Thursday night, Twittered about it, then woke Friday to find that RC2 had beaten me to it. And quoted pretty much the exact passage I was going to (but, predictably, I’d planned on quoting a bunch more). Her thoughts on the topic are here.

It’s a lovely essay and I recommend the [...]

Categories: Business & Media

I was this close to sending an email to Fox News when we cancelled our cable that the only thing that kept me subscribing to cable was his show, and please don’t take it personally, etc etc.

The Corner – KLo: This Is Beautiful

from Brit Hume, via Christianity Today: [...]

Categories: Business & Media

A much more interesting Person of the Year:

The Times – Person of the Year<br/> Neda Soltan, killed by a government thug, became a symbol of Iranians’ yearning for democracy and the ruthlessness of a bankrupt regime

Every few years a man, or a woman, whose name is often familiar to few beyond the circle of [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Spectator Blog – The Iraq inquiry we should be having, by Fraser Nelson

Do we still have the will to win in Afghanistan? If so, the question the Iraq inquiry should be asking is not “how did we get into this war” – we have had a number of separate inquiries into that [...]

Categories: War and Peace

National Post – David Akin: Now we know why Stephen Harper doesn’t like you, Indian media tells Canadian counterparts

Apparently, we — the Canadian media travelling with Prime Minister Stephen Harper this week — ruffled a few feathers during our three days here. Here is a review of our coverage written by Sarabjit Jagirdar [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

This has been quite the trip.

Categories: Politics